A walk...

Let it be known in the 'Verse that I'm not an outdoorsy girl. I don't do bugs. I don't do lots of dirt. I don't do small animals running around near me. And I most definitely don't do no showers. Call me a girly girl if you must. Call  me prissy. I'll own up to it. I am, however, a outsidesy girl. I like walks. I like sunshine. I like swing sets. I like rain. I like flowers. I like wind in the trees. And I like that I get to walk back into my clean house with a ready shower. It's a win-win, really. Tonight I decided to go on a walk.

As a rule, I kind of hate summer. It's too hot. I dislike feeling as though I'm melting every second that I'm outside of my air conditioned house/car. Today had been a slightly stressful day. I had my fourth (yes, you read that right, fourth) interview for the same job up at the U. I mean, I get four interviews for the CIA, FBI, NSA or any other three letter organization. But really? Anyway, I decided that I needed a walk.

I chose Taylor Swift as the soundtrack for my little journey. Now put your astonished face away. I know I always go on and on about how much I hate country music, but Taylor, she speaks to me. So in my ears the headphones went and my little feets got to walking. I came to a conclusion: I either need a dog (I don't do animals, so this is big deal) or a boyfriend, because people looked at me funny as I bee-bopped down 8th East by my lonesome. That might have been because at one point I could not contain those feets of mine any longer and I started dancing. That's right, dancing. This shouldn't surprise you. Oh, you in the back? Thank you for asking. It was ballet. A few twirls and leaps never hurt anyone. Just after my display, I found a swing set. Which meant that I had to swing. It was an absolute necessity.

Yup. I took pictures of those feets of mine while I was swinging. Hence the blurry pictures. And it was only my cell phone camera. I'm not a big deal and I don't have an expensive camera. It was delightful. I had forgotten how much I love to swing. There's a type of freedom that comes from swinging. It throws me back to being a little kid. Even now, if I close my eyes, the whole world is open to me and I could be swinging off to anywhere. But it makes me dizzy, so closing my eyes isn't a good idea. Plus, I can't take blurry photos for your enjoyment with my peepers closed. So I did the swingings for a bit and then continued my mini-journey. And you know what? The sunlight coming through the trees right about sunset is magical. There isn't an expensive camera in the world that could properly capture it. I'm pretty sure that it could cure cancer or bring world peace. I felt perfectly content with life, even though there are plenty of things that I wish I could change, things that are out of my control entirely. But with that sunlight streaming through the trees? I could do anything. I could work miracles. So, dear readers, what is the moral of this post, you ask? Well simple: Go on a walk.